States setting their own CBD rules as federal action lags
Hoping to resolve the legal confusion surrounding the selling of CBD products, states are starting to leapfrog federal health regulators and give hemp entrepreneurs permission to put cannabis extracts in food, drinks and dietary supplements. But the efforts aren’t reducing legal headaches for the hemp industry.
HIGHLIGHTS
- State and governments are crafting their own health-and-safety regulations.
- The FDA has repeatedly said that CBD can’t go in food or dietary supplements sold across state lines, however, enforcement is weak.
- Hemp entrepreneurs say the CBD landscape is getting more complicated, not less.
- Until the FDA settles on a national CBD regime, hemp businesses have no choice but to accept some risk when taking products to market.
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